5 Ergebnisse.

Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex, and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, as well as Spain ...

A masterpiece of social documentary, this work is at once the biography of a photographer, an expose of poverty and injustice, and a celebration of the human spirit.

American photographers have been fascinated by the lives of California farmworkers since the time of the daguerreotype. From the earliest Gold Rush–era images and the documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression to digital images today, photographers and farmworkers in California have had a complicated and continuously changing bond. In Everyone Had Cameras, Richard Steven Street provides a comprehensive history of the significant...

Keine Beschreibung.

As exploited and colonized people, California farmworkers have attracted such overwhelming photographic scrutiny that their story cannot be told or understood without engaging the photographic dimension. With 246 compelling black and white photographs, this book chronicles and cuts through layers of ignorance and indifference, forcing the viewer to reflect on the subservience of an entire class of people.